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3.4
Share Documents Locally
You can now share Sketch documents on a local network.
Improved Copy and Paste
Copy and Pasting elements will now always be in view, and at less-random locations.
Improved Boolean Operations
Major improvements and fixes when combining multiple shapes.
Improved Panning and Zooming
Navigating documents is now a much smoother experience.
Enhancements (33)
- Artboards can now be previewed in a web browser and shared on the local network
- Significantly faster and much more accurate Boolean Operations
- Improved and more predictable copy and paste
- You can now disable Auto Save in the Preferences
- Added Artboard preset and template file for Material Design icons
- You can now create a quick mask for a selected bitmap just by clicking the Mask button in the toolbar
- Measuring distances between layers now also works with ⌘ (Command) to drill down into groups
- You can hold ⌥ (Option) to switch between Lock and Hide icons in Layer List
- You can now Option-hover layers in the Layer List to measure distances between it and the selected layer
- Added the ability to change the selected Artboard’s background color using ControlC
- Improved Undo/Redo reliability
- You can now edit the Layout or Grid for multiple Artboards at the same time
- When pixel fitting is off, we no longer move layers by 1px increments. When it’s on, we always snap to full pixels
- Removed the ability to nudge a layer by 0.1px when holding ⌥ as it conflicted with other shortcuts
- Rotating a layer in the Inspector will now rotate clockwise
- Export previews now use a checkerboard pattern to show transparency for white and light objects
- Improved the way Symbols treat text layers with multiple font styles
- When background blur is turned on we now automatically make any fills on the same layer semi-transparent
- Make Grid now respects the “Rename Duplicated Layers” preference
- Removed the double Export buttons on the Artboard Inspector and realigned the previews correctly
- “Replace Image…” option when right-clicking an image
- Improved Background Blur rendering
- Zooming performance improvements, especially for fast consecutive zoom actions, or traditional mouse-wheel scrolling
- Improved the behaviour of using ⇧ (Shift) to lock movement of layers
- Added the ability to drag embedded SVG images directly from the browser into Sketch
- Preferences now includes pane to manage installed Plugins
- Scrollbar in the layer list no longer obscures the hide/lock icons
- New gradients are now based on the current fill colour
- International-friendly § key feature to zoom to 100% when held (~ key on US keyboards)
- The command line SketchTool is now embedded inside Sketch
- Changed behavior of zooming when you hold Z and drag. The zoom tool will stay active even if you release Z.
- If you press Z while already dragging, it will not begin zooming. It will only activate the zoom tool if Z is pressed before the drag.
- Plugins can optionally disable CocoaScript preprocessing
Fixes (90)
- Fixed a crash when attempting to export images that have accidentally been made insanely large
- Fixed crash when deleting a Shared Style whilst editing its name
- Fixed a crash when resizing a group via the Inspector
- Fixed a crash when adding a Page whilst the document was being saved in the background
- Fixed a crash when pasting an empty string
- Fixed an occasional crash after editing text
- Fixed an occasional crash when changing fonts
- Fixed a crash with the Layout Settings and Grid Settings panels
- Fixed a crash when dragging a Slice preview
- Fixed a crash when closing window on 10.11
- Fixed a crash when organize Text Styles sheet is open in two documents at once
- Fixed an occasional crash when stepping a value up or down in the Inspector
- Duplicating a layer no longer loses focus
- Reverting a document to a previous state no longer causes refresh issues
- Patterns are no longer sometimes displayed at the wrong scale
- Renaming a style now gives it a different identity, so copying and pasting between documents will no longer change a style with the old name in the pasted document
- Rotated subpaths now have correct coordinates
- Pasting a shape with a pattern uses the correct scale
- Edit > Scale no longer ignores multiple text sizes on text layers
- Improves anti-aliasing of bitmap layers when zoomed in
- Reliability of Quick Look previews improved
- iPhone 6 Plus-sized Artboard scales correctly to Mirror
- Copying a Text Style with a non-default line height between layers no longer causes problems
- Switching from a transparent gradient to a color fill no longer produces a faulty opacity on the fill
- Sub-layers of a hidden groups no longer display their selection outline
- The shared Text Style preview updates correctly when the Inspector changes
- Text focus returns properly to the text handler after making changes in the Inspector
- ‘Revert to Saved’ redraws a document correctly
- Background-blurred layers no longer have white edges
- Holding ⌘ to disable snapping when moving points now hides existing snapping guides
- The Color Picker correctly highlights identical colors among the presets
- Selecting an Artboard no longer enables the Rotate toolbar icon
- Command-hovering overlapping layers no longer produces redrawing glitches
- Resizing rotated shapes with the keyboard no longer expands them
- Dragging around a mix of layers and Artboards with guides no longer produces redraw glitches
- Text layer’s hover shows at correct position
- The Inspector updates correctly after aligning multiple layers
- Dragging a layer into an Artboard correctly enables the Align buttons
- Edit > Scale correctly scales dashed borders
- Converting Text to Outlines no longer moves the layer to the top of the hierarchy
- Transform and Edit buttons would not be disabled when they should be
- Text color no longer reset after switching text from lowercase to uppercase
- Inserting text with a Shared Style no longer overrides the style from another shared Text Style
- Distance measurements no longer produce duplicate measurements on grids with small spacing
- Shapes can no longer be left in an invalid state after Undo
- Resizing multiple layers at once no longer causes them to jump around
- No longer possible to turn the Text tool into the Rectangle tool halfway through a drag
- Blended pattern fills export correctly
- Deeply nested text can be edited
- Dragging after right-clicking no longer moves unexpected layers
- Rotated shape bounds no longer jump when scaling its parent group
- Text layers no longer wrap their contents unwantedly when re-opening a document
- Artboard positions are now always appear on whole pixels
- Toggling sub-pixel anti-aliasing in the Preferences now immediately refreshes the document
- Cutting and Pasting layers now properly updates the rulers
- Mouse cursors update correctly when using shortcuts
- Improves the undo handling of the Edit > Scale sheet
- Locking or unlocking layers made more consistent when there’s a mix of locked and unlocked layers
- Removing a mask updates the canvas correctly
- Improves performance when interacting with Artboards and Slices by being smarter about delaying and cancelling preview regeneration
- Adjusting text line height during editing no longer moves the layer
- Group bounds now correctly match their contents
- Undoing a gradient stop change no longer turns it gray
- Improved reordering of Artboards in the Layer List
- Images with an alpha channel now render blended fills correctly
- Fill preview in Inspector now updates correctly when pattern fill image is changed
- Color popover highlights correctly when selecting a preset
- The Mirror popover now refreshes if it is open when the device list changes
- Layers flattened to bitmap now automatically lock their proportions
- Zoom to Selection whilst editing a bitmap now uses the bitmap’s selection
- Cancelling editing of a bitmap no longer causes it to resize unexpectedly
- When hovering over a group in the layer list, the bounds shown on the canvas are now correct
- Blank images now export at the correct size
- The Scale sheet is no longer resizeable
- Opacity value now updates correctly in the popover when edited outside it
- Blend modes for fills now render correctly
- Snap distances now display while holding ⌥ (Option) and hovering over the Layer List
- Fixes a rare possible when flattening layers down to bitmaps
- Fixes a rare text rendering related crasher
- Restores the behaviour where you can press Tab in the Font picker to go back to the search field
- Fixed a crash when using the Magic Wand tool
- Fixes a cosmetic issue with the drawing of the Layer List separator on retina screens
- Fixes an issue with the Magic Wand tool not working properly in certain circumstances
- Fixes a bug where the Magic Wand tool could leave drawing artifacts on the canvas
- Rendering of overlapping bitmaps with non-opaque fills now works in all cases. It was sometimes getting clipped
- Rendering of embedded groups with shadows no longer shows artifacts like clipping or onion-skinning when dragging
- Improved the behaviour of pasting from the context menu in the Layer List
- When you hold Z and drag, it now zooms in all cases. Previously, there were occasions where it would only translate, not zoom
- Fixed a hang when duplicating documents
- Fixed an issue where flipping or rotating a layer didn’t update when Color Adjust was selected
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